Derek Thomas (@DerekThomas) profile picture

Fintech CEO | ex KPMG | ex NASA | A.I Veteran

Between London & Johannesburg
Joined May 2010
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Zambia finally gets Green Finance training for SMEs.
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teapaw.org/eve_silb/status/195212… Game Design-as-a-Service? AI vibe coding and some relentless talent are making it happen!
Replying to @sama
software is becoming content
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Does this scene from *Scarface* remind you of a certain Oval Office rare earth minerals fiasco? youtube.com/shorts/VbKU_kErK…
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Our impact Fintech just hit a major milestone: SmileMoney.africa is now on the National Financial Switch (NFS)! linkedin.com/pulse/smilemone… via @LinkedIn
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Derek Thomas retweeted
Everyone doubted him. No one believed in him. The greatest ever.
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There is no Fox Marvel Universe or MCU without Blade first creating a market. He’s Marvel Daddy. Please retweet for a Logan-like send off. #DeadpoolAndWolverine
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A sad day 😓 for the pioneer of design software. Macromedia must be laughing from the graveyard of software companies. #kodak #macromedia #CrazyTimes
I just cancelled my Adobe licence after many years as a customer. The new terms give Adobe "worldwide royalty-free licence to reproduce, display, distribute" or do whatever they want with any content I produce using their software. This is beyond insane. No creator in their right mind can accept this . You pay a huge monthly subscription and they want to own your content and your entire business as well. Going to have to learn some new tools.
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$GME GAMESTOP JUMPS 22% IN AFTER-HOURS AFTER STOCK SALE Shares of GameStop Corp. rallied over 22% in after-hours trading on Friday after it said it completed its stock sale and raised approximately $933.4 million in aggregate gross proceeds. The company noted it sold the maximum number of shares registered under its "at-the-market" (ATM) program and stressed it plans to "use the net proceeds from the ATM Program for general corporate purposes, which may include acquisitions and investments."
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Lupiya's $8.3M Series A deck tcrn.ch/48EQyd0 via @techcrunch
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#Zambia's e-commerce marketplace Gwila.com is a secure site to buy and sell online and pay using #MobileMoney techcabal.com/2023/08/18/der…
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#ecommerce brand Shein has shown us that ultra-low price, quick delivery works well in Africa and the USA. Not to forget a massive social advertising budget.
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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. You’ve gotta do something and you’ve gotta do something fast. You just sitting around talking about it and hoping for things to get better is how you LOSE.
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#Brazil #economics Brazil’s journey into the aerospace industry has been filled with both challenges and opportunities, yet it has steadily made strides towards becoming a significant player. Read more: qonversations.world/unveilin…
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Couldn't agree more!
"Tech is expensive to build and if we don't have the investors, especially at an early stage you're backing the jockey and not the horse." - @NaadiyaMoosajee Founder, @womhub @Visa #EverywhereInitiativeSA.
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Happy Sunday everyone and keep on moving (even if it's in your own mind).
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And will be trained on enormous amounts of compute
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Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary
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Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary
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